Balabolka - an excellent program that can read aloud text files. Can play the sound of a human voice and use different speech synthesizers installed in your system. Speech reproduction can be controlled with simple buttons similar to those found in any multimedia program ("play / pause / stop"). The program can read aloud the contents of the clipboard, display the text contained in DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files.

The text can be saved as an audio file (WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG and WMA formats are supported). The program is able to work with different versions of the Speech API speech package (SAPI). It allows you to change the speed and timbre of speech.

The program " Balabolka"can also store text readable in computer voice in LRC format files or in ID3 tags inside MP3 audio files.When playing such a sound file in a media player on a computer or a modern player, the text is displayed synchronously (as well as the lyrics in the music files), can read the contents of the clipboard aloud, show the text contained in DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files, change the font and color settings, manage the reading process from the system tray (notification area) or with global associations Key words, spelling of the text typed on the keyboard, spelling, dividing the text file into several smaller files, looking for homographs. "Balabolka" provides the ability to remove from the text all the hyphenation signs at the ends of lines;

Advantages of the portable version:* No installation required.* Can be launched from a USB drive, without copying to a local drive.* Compact and easy to use.* The text will look the same when working on any computer.